The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-17
FAvoRs A CHANGE.
Deputy Commissioner Henderson, Thinks
All Republicans Should Go.
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Washington Post. August H.
Commissioner Miller, of the Internal
| Revenue Bureau, is at present away on
vacation, and Col. E. c. Henderson, the
| deputy, is now acting commissioner. Most
| of the chiefs of divisions in that bureau
/ still sre Republicans, as q majority Of all
the clerks employed there are Republicans.
Col. Henderson is said TO desire nothing
other than to see these Republican chiefs
of divisions and, for that matter, the Re-
publican clerks also. turned out and re-
placed by good Democrats In fact 1t has
been said that Col Henderson would use
bis tenn orsry incumbency OF the commi..
ssonership to do what some eager Demo-
Gratis claim that Commissioners Miller has
been too slow to perform.
mo" said Col. Henderson to Possssa re-
porter yesterday when asked abous the
matter; II do not think it would be p-ope
for me TO take advantage Of the temporary
absence of the regular head of this Office
to DO what he has not shown disposition
to do, however much might desire to see
ii done. think it is for ne while Acting
Commissioner to do only the routine and
Necessary business of the Office If can, IN
the way IN when / think it would have
been done by him for whom / am acting.
I do think that these offices should be
given 10 Democrats. The fact that the
Republican incumbents are good clerks or
good officials is not sufficient reason in
my mind, for their retention. The only
good reason would be the imposslbility OF
filling their places with Democrats as
good. OF course l am partisan n poll
tics If am anything; Icome from poll
cal state, state where the children and
the women enter the campaign, and where
for several months in the year there is
nothing done but campaigning. When
we win the fight there we expect to reap
the full benefits of victory. We take the
same view OF the Presidential election that
we take of q mere local test. The fight of
1884 was not all for the mere sake of hay
ing a change of President; we wanted
change of administration, and the admin
istration includes every man employed in
the Federal service.
So far as this Bureau is concerned, the
collectors and guagers and all the outdoor
the service 10 now Democratic, but at
headquarters here in Washington the Re-
publicaDs remain in Office and in the ma
io1ity. / would turn them all out and
think the President would turn them all
out. OF course If head OF Department or
8 chief of Bureau says that he cannot well
get along without certain Republican Of
fetal the President is not likely to oppose
his retention, but it seems TO me that tine
hAeSAoShI - EOl Tue Oouse VI AafinS hepuo-
licsns kept IN office. have every reason
to believe that nothing pleases President
Cleveland more than than the recommen-
dalton that good Democrat be employed
in the place of Republican, however eff
cient the latter may have been. il the
former rises to an equal standard. The
President, have no doubt, observes and
executes the civil service law to the letter
and keeps politics entirely apart from the
classified service, but outside of the CLASH
fed service, controlled by the civil service
law, 1 am sure it is the fault of the head OF
the Department or the chief of the Bureau,
and not the President, if Republicans are
retained.